An EARy Night

I was asleep… very asleep. It was about 11:30 last night when my youngest stood by my bed and tapped on my arm. When I awoke I realized she was whimpering. What could be wrong? She told me that she felt like something was churning in her ear. She loves to swim so I assumed that she had some water trapped in her ear giving her troubles.

It’s off to the medicine cabinet I go. I made a small amount of a concoction that divers call “ear beer”. This is a 50/50 mix of Hydrogen Peroxide and Alcohol (some divers add vinegar too). Having my daughter lay on her side with the offending ear on up, I poured a small amount of the mix in, and… OMG!!

A BUG CRAWLED OUT!!! Yep, it was an Earwig! Wow, that was creeeeepy and gross.

I could NOT go back to sleep, so I stayed up for a while researching all about the earwig. Apparently there is a myth that they lay eggs in the brain after entering through the ear. I sure hope that’s a myth!

Many sites claim that it’s not even true that these critters go in the human ear. Well, you heard it here… THEY DO.

After it was all done my daughter felt better and went to sleep and there is one more earwig in my septic system. I’m not sure if I handled it all exactly right, but all is well and we all learned a little something.